I really liked this book, as well as Moroccan Style. I felt this book was a little more comprehensive on the styles by region of Morocco and showed more traditional design.

Cute colorful book. However, it is not what I envisioned from the reviews. It is all about decoration design studies and furnishings. If you want to see how to set a table, arrange items on a crowded shelf, hang antiques on a wall, then this book is for you. Unfortunately, this is NOT what I was looking for. Apparently, there is little in the way of comprehensive SW/pueblo style architectural and style books available. My search continues!

Like another reviewer, I purchased this book because I will soon be building an adobe style house. The pictures are beautiful and the houses are full of imaginative touches. For my own purposes, I would have liked to be able to see more of the rooms (rather than the interior decoration), so that I could get more ideas for the architecture of my new home. This book is mostly focused on unusual interior decoration (and ideas for rich people, I might add).

I got this book so I could see more examples of the contemporary solutions in Southwest design. It has some good ideas, but most are more folk-art-based. Some of the photograhy is centered around the object more than the space, so it's not very effective if you are looking at it from an architectural point of view. It is a good start for ideas if you are looking to add some flavor to a design. Also realize that the book is not just gardens but interiors, too.

Most of this work is very elegant; some is kind of gaudy.